This. If you run your own business, ask a Wayne Rooney or a Rio Ferdinand to endorse your product and you'll get a whopping invoice to pay - right now RL is getting it for free. Whether it's making any difference or not I wouldn't like to say.

I wondered when you'd pop up, hope you've got a cut of his new contract...he might even buy you a pint at the LSV now!

it was a discussion point. I was interested in what other people thought on this subject, and it has received 4 pages of replies. are you not familiar with how forums work?

I'd imagine it may increase casual sky viewers.

Someone sees wayne rooney raving about it, decides to watch a game on sky, kinda likes it, watches it when they can.

BARB ratings pretty much indicate this, I suspect a lot of football supporters particularly in the north west and to a lesser degree in West Yorkshire will have RL as their second sport that would most likely be the case with or without twitterings of high profile football players. Look at the BARB ratings when football is on, no other sport is so adversely affected in this way.

I Have seen Tim Cahill at a widnes match this season watching his mate Frank Winterstin.

Tim Cahill is a big RL fan, know he used to watch Saints a lot when Peralini was at the club (think they are cousins or something)

I think you will find that at least half of the Australian Football Players follow and like League and half of the Australian Cricketers do as well, pretty well half or more of Australians do.

I've seen Chris Kamara at a few games

Who does he follow